J.J. Goodman: Writings, Musings and More

So, here’s the thing – This week social media is going to be inundated with tweets, pictures, updates and posts declaring how thankful everyone is for [insert thing for which you’re thankful here]. By and large these gracious messages of thanksgiving will center on one of the following subjects; family; friends; employment; pets; and/or general well-being. Now, I’m not saying that I’m not thankful for all of those things, because I am, truly. I’m also fairly certain that as the week progresses I too will find myself guilty of posting such grateful sentiment. Today, however, I thought I’d take a few moments to express my gratitude for some  other  things, those silly, stupid, irreverent things that make up our lives and which we generally take for granted. (This ought to be interesting….) I think it just might be interesting. And no, to answer the question you’re likely going to ask a little later in this writing, no, I didn’t get a lot of sleep last night. (Oh boy….) ...

So, this vacation thing kinda rocks.  (Duh.) Yeah, I know. But here’s the thing, maybe if I took more of them I wouldn’t appreciate the ones I do take nearly as much… right? (*looks on skeptically*) Fine.  I need to take more vacation. But in that I just returned home from one, I’ll share with you my experiences. Now, I know for many of my readers in the northeast, Buffalo especially, you’ve spent the last several days in frigid, snowy weather that has literally buried your cities and towns. Having lived through the Blizzard of ’77, the Ice Storm of ’91, a lesser known but still debilitating storm of ’95, and many heavy snow events in between and since, I sympathize with your plight. I really do. I’d offer to help, but I can’t even do that as the highway is still closed, so I couldn’t get there if I tried. So, instead, I will regale you with tales of my basking in the perfectionness that was San Diego while I was recently on vacation so that you can live vicariously ...

I would like to meet those responsible for scheduling ye ol' falling back of the daylight savings within two days of Election Day and lock them in a room where they're forced to watch political ads on an endless loop. Not that such a fate would be any different from that we've all been suffering for the last several days. Because let's face it – When I'm tired and cranky as the result of an utterly useless and archaic practice of changing the time, all I want to do is watch political ads interspersed with mediocre network programming.  (I'm sensing… sarcasm.) You think???? One needs only to exist from November 2 nd  to November 4 th  to realize that there are a lot of useless things, events, activities and people that permeate our lives. Daylight Savings time, for example. If memory serves me correctly, the notion was originally implemented to allow farmers extra daylight time in which to perform their farmerly duties. Of course, this came about during ...